Photo Credit: Michael Tan
The Scene
This annual five day music and arts festival from Calgary brings in more than 300 artists, comedians, and filmmakers in more than 30 venues across the city. Each year, Sled Island selects a guest curator to help set the tone and direction of the current edition. Past curaters include Peaches, Andrew W.K., and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Festival Poster
2018 Artist Lineup
- Dirty Projectors
- John Maus
- Mount Eerie
- Grouper
- Lido Pimienta
- Ufomammut
- Slow
- Synkro
- 40 Watt Sun
- the Body
- Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie
- Wand
- Deerhoof
- Wye Oak
- Cherry Glazerr
- Shabazz Palaces
- Tyondai Braxton
- Guerilla Toss
- Eucademix
- Lithics
- Alder & Ash
- Basic Instinct
- Black Pills
- Blue Odeur
- Body Lens
- Bog Bodies
- Boyhood
- Building Confidence Through Play
- Cascades
- Counterfeit Jeans
- Crims & Flow
- Dada Centauri
- Discovery Zone
- Glaux
- ItsJab
- Janitor Scum
- Jean Daddy
- Jock Tears
- Jonathan Kawchuk
- Le Plaisir
- Leather Jacuzzi
- Life in Vacuum
- Lingua Ignota
- Man Meat
- Overland
- Paradise
- Pinact
- Possum
- Scattered Clouds
- Screaming Targets
- Sightlines
- Sister Ray
- SLATES
- Text Chunk
- The Radiation Flowers
- Truster
- Valiska
- Vase
- VICTIME
- White Hills
- Wish Lash
- Woodhawk